Pretty sure a decent amount of them are bots. I’m in the same boat, I try to just ignore them.
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spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Even in my relatively liberal U.S. city, Next Door is overrun by Magats who are cheered on and protected by right-wing Magot moderators. It needs to die and this looks like a great replacement.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Pretty sure a decent amount of them are bots.
Could be, but those bots must be programmed to simulate actual Maggots. They don’t know how to spell, capitalize or use punctuation, much less write more than a single barely comprehensible sentence.
null@lemmy.org 4 hours ago
It’s a similar story for the multiple Facebook communities for where I live. They handed a lot of bans during covid era while pushing anti-vax rhetoric.
Lonewolfmcquade@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Agreed. Tried NextDoor years ago and found it was primarily a venue for busybodies, nosy neighbors and HOAs to complain and nag people about nonsense. I love the idea of an app like this, but hate the people who use it the most.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
It goes deeper with Nextdoor. During Covid someone living next to a local evangelical church posted pictures of a packed event where no one was wearing a mask. Some of those pictures included the backs of a few kid’s heads.
The church members complained that he was a pedophile(!) and Nextdoor deleted his account, something that could not be done by moderators and required Nextdoor executive approval.
Nextdoor is a Maggot haven from top to bottom.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Out in my neck of the woods, NextDoor wouldn’t be effective. Lots of acreage between people. We don’t take kindly to snoopers and busybodies. We keep an eye on each other, but not in a nosy neighbor kind of way. Now, where my lady friend lives, it’s eat up with NextDoor. She showed me her feed once, I was like ‘You know, I strongly believe America could solve about 50% of their problems with this one simple trick: Mind Your Own Business!’.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I found it useful for some things. We have a pack of coyotes in town that preys on dogs and occasionally is spotted in the neighborhood. It was also useful for business & contractor recommendations, but have to otherwise agree with you.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
coyotes in town
That’s understandable. However ‘I see Mr Jones left his garbage cans at the road for a third day’ would get a response like ‘Mr Jones here, I just ramset the cans to the sidewalk. Suck it!’.
carlnewton@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
I’ve built in the ability to hide categories for this kind of reason. I was thinking, for instance, that people who enjoy a good moan can join the “Moaners Club” category, and the rest of us can hide that category from our feeds to get on with the categories we enjoy. Regarding problematic moderators, I have built a moderation log to keep them accountable, and of course, if they don’t show themselves to have good intentions, those with good intentions could create their own instance – I don’t know why I’m going into this kind of detail – you’re on Lemmy after all, you know the score!
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
…you want us to get together and moan with each other? Buddy! I didn’t know this was that kind of app!